Welcome

I am the M. Christian Mitchell Associate Professor in Real Estate and Economics at the University of Alabama. My research strives to improve urban transportation systems by focusing on three broad themes: first, understanding and addressing traffic congestion, second, evaluating the impacts of new transportation technologies on cities, and third, improving transportation safety. My research uses a variety of theoretical and empirical methods, including structural and reduced-form approaches, to address these themes.

My work has been published in leading academic journals including Science, the Journal of the European Economics Association, the International Economic Review, and Transportation Research Part B, and covered by media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, The Telegraph (United Kingdom), and CBC (Canada). My work has been honored by the Sakip Sabanci International Research Award, the Best Dissertation Award by the Transportation and Public Utilities Group, and the Best Paper Award at the Kumho-Nectar Conference on Transportation Economics.

I received my B.A. from Brigham Young University and my M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Before coming to the University of Alabama, I completed a postdoc at Northwestern University and was on the faculty at the University of Toronto.